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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: he kissed her and went out.
He met Elizabeth that day. She had come to the house, and after
her custom now went up, unwarned, to David's room. She found David
there and Harrison Miller, and - it was a moment before she realized
it - Dick by the mantel. He was greatly changed. She saw that.
But she had no feeling of pity, nor even of undue surprise. She
felt nothing at all. It gave her a curious, almost hard little
sense of triumph to see that he had gone pale. She marched up to
him and held out her hand, mindful of the eyes on her.
"I'm so very sorry, Dick," she said. "You have a sad home-coming."
Then she withdrew her hand, still calm, and turned to David.
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